Pineapple plant

I have 3 pineapple plants in my garden. One is planted under the sun.

The below 2 were growing for long time under the lemon & mango trees shade. I think about 4 - 5 years. No fruits. I know I have planted them in wrong position. The plant won't be able to produce fruits here. It won't grow to fullest too! I had a deep thinking yesterday. Finally I made a risk. I uprooted them and replanted them under the sun.

I'm not sure if it will survive. Have anyone uprooted pineapple plant before? Their roots are very shallow. So i just assumed that i never disturbed their main rooting system.

Hope these 2 plants survived my experiment! 

2015 - Pineapple

Happy New Year Everyone!

This is my 1st post for the year 2015.

It's been very wet here in Malaysia. Heavy rain and flood everywhere. Luckily my area is safe!

Pineapple has been growing well. I can see the awesome fruit getting bigger and bigger!

I'm not sure when I can harvest the fruit. I have to do some search after this! 

pineapple fruiting

This is far beyond my expectation! My pineapple plant have started to set fruit. This is really a big surprise for me. I hardly care for them except watering done once a day. Once in a while I will put some fertilizer.

The young fruit is red in colour for now. This is my first time to see pineapple young fruit!

I read somewhere that it takes another 6 months for the fruit to mature! It's a long journey but I more than happy to see the ripe fruit! 

pineapple progress

Pineapple is growing slowly. More leaves are adding on. I found some tips in growing Pineapple from website :http://www.tropicalpermaculture.com/growing-pineapples.html

A few things you should know about pineapple plants:

Pineapples don't need much water. They have very tough leaves so they don't lose much water through evaporation. They can get by on very little.
Pineapples don't need much soil or high quality soil. They belong to the family of bromeliads, and like all bromeliads they do not have a big root system.
Pineapples get a lot of their water and nutrition through their leaves.
Pineapples like slightly acidic soils, which is what most gardens have anyway.
Pineapples grow in full sun, even in the hottest climates, but they also do well in dappled shade.
Pineapples grow very happily in pots or tubs.
What pineapples do not like is
soggy, waterlogged soils,
having their leaves burned with concentrated fertilisers,
frost.

I read somewhere that the leaves colours indicate the health state of the plant. I'm not so sure if mine is doing well but I think I have to put more hand on this plant. Oh yes, do some weeding too!

attempt to grow pineapple

This is my 1st attempt with success to grow pineapple! So far both the pineapples are growing well in between chillies. I think they don't mind sharing the bed with chillies, kangkung and some weeds too! It's time to do weeding but the rain season is making the weeds grow so fast that I pull my white flag up!

I'm not sure how long it take to bear a fruit but it seems to take very long time to grow to this size.

Pineapple

Pineapples are easily grown in Malaysia! They are just so sweet and juicy! It's pack full of nutrition too!

Last month I bought 2 small pineapples. They were so sweet that I decided to plant pineapple in my garden! I cut the crown and planted them in the pot. I think may be this pot is not enough for them in future but let me see what I shall do once they have grow larger....May be I will transplant to the ground later....

It take almost 1year plus for the plant to produce fruit. Is it true? It's such a long wait! ;)

Anyone out there have planted pineapple before? May be you can share the experience with me! We can share for everyone to know too! ;)